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Honoring !BORIKUA WOMEN WARRIORS!” FORWARD SISTERS IN THE STRUGGLE! All power to the people!
The Young Lords emerged in New York in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women in the Young Lords organized to build a people's movement and fought the “revolution within the revolution” believing that women’s equality was inseparable from the society’s progress as a whole.”(Source) -by Iris Morales, Through the Eyes of Rebel WomenWhether it's been in their professional lives or raising families, many of the Young Lords Women continue to instill and share the same values-chiefly, a commitment to advancing communities and to the dignity of women. "It's really key that women from that period learned lessons not only about raising daughters a certain way but also sons a certain way," Oliver said (Denise Oliver Velez). The party changed the way Puerto Rican women and men looked at themselves and this may be its lasting impact. Some of the proof is in the subsequent generation of sons and daughters.(Sources) by Erica González who’s the opinion page editor for El Diario/la PrensaThe Mujeres of the Young Lords By Erica González, Colorliines Magazine 2006






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REPOST:
CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO — At least 4,645 people died as a result of Hurricane Maria and its devastation across Puerto Rico last year, according to a new Harvard study released Tuesday, an estimate that far exceeds the official government death toll, which stands at 64.
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that health-care disruption for the elderly and the loss of basic utility services for the chronically ill had significant impacts across the U.S. territory, which was thrown into chaos after the September hurricane wiped out the electrical grid and had widespread impacts on infrastructure. Some communities were entirely cut off for weeks amid road closures and communications failures.
Researchers in the United States and Puerto Rico, led by scientists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, calculated the number of deaths by surveying nearly 3,300 randomly chosen households across the island and comparing the estimated post-hurricane death rate to the mortality rate for the year before. Their surveys indicated that the mortality rate was 14.3 deaths per 1,000 residents from Sept. 20 through Dec. 31, 2017, a 62 percent increase in the mortality rate compared to 2016, or 4,645 “excess deaths.” “Our results indicate that the official death count of 64 is a substantial underestimate of the true burden of mortality after Hurricane Maria,” the authors wrote.
The official death estimates have drawn sharp criticism from experts and local residents, and the new study criticized Puerto Rico’s methods for counting the dead — and its lack of transparency in sharing information — as detrimental to planning for future natural disasters. The authors called for patients, communities and doctors to develop contingency plans for natural disasters.





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